The cult of Jordan Peterson
What the Canadian intellectual gets right about young men
Jordan Peterson’s new book is titled “We Who Wrestle With God”. Quite what God has done to provoke this fight is not clear. Open it, and two things become apparent. First, this is a friendly skirmish: the Canadian psychologist is less wrestling God than trying to understand him.
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